Previously, I posted how to support developers running Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 on the same .Net 2.0 solution on the same team, built, CI server, etc . The solution is to have 2 solution files. These files have to be kept in sync to keep a healthy build process. It is very important...

DevTeach starts Monday in Vancouver, and after the pre-con we're kicking it off with a blow-out Party with Palermo . This is the official social event of the DevTeach conference, and it's open to all conference attendees as well as the local community. In short, if you are in Vancouver Monday...

I'll be attending the AltNetConf . Convenient for me that it's in Austin, TX. It's an open space conference, and I consider it the founding conference of a conversation that is "Alt.Net". I'll be proposing the topic: What are the Alt.Net principles? . The definition of Alt.Net...

Please read this post by Brad Appleton (and some links off the post) about building trust in a software team. The notion is very profound, and we don't talk about much in professional circles. I, for one, can easily be drawn into only thinking about the technical aspects of software development....

For all you MVPs out there, I'll be at the MVP summit in March, so count on a "Party with Palermo" the night before everything starts up. I'll post more details (time/place) as it gets closer, but since tomorrow many people will be making travel plans, plan on arriving the day before...

I've been reviewing Jim Shore and chromatic 's upcoming Agile book, and I especially like the "No Bugs" section here: http://jimshore.textdriven.com/Agile-Book/no_bugs.html Large, dusty bug databases abound. Some teams have a process where this is unavoidable. Some teams use a bug database...

I have printed out and posted the graphic from Plip's blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/archive/2006/11/16/who-broke-the-build.aspx

Testing WinForms UIs is tough. Manual testing is slow and difficult to repeat. Vivek Singh has just released a new version of SharpRobo , a WinForms testing framework. Vivek recommends running these tests through NUnit, and from practive, I've found that whatever I can test with NUnit, I can test with...

After lunch on Sunday, many of the speakers formed a panel, and we had a panel discussion. One of the hot buttons was Java vs. Ruby. Bruce Tate does all Ruby consulting, and it’s working well for him. Others on the panel stress that Java and other strictly typed languages can still be wildly useful....

On the 3 rd day of NFJS , Neal gave a talk about testing with Selenium . Selenium is a end-to-end testing solution for web applications. This is testing on the customer acceptance level and not the unit-testing level. Selenium was developed by ThoughtWorks to test an application they were working on...